The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists honor exceptional young scientists and engineers by celebrating their extraordinary achievements, recognizing outstanding promise, and accelerating innovation through unrestricted funding.

"Our goal is to recognize and celebrate exceptional young scientists—to make them examples of what the next generation of young scientists should strive to achieve. The Blavatnik Family Foundation is providing critical support to seed innovative work in science and technology that will address society's most pressing global problems."

—Len Blavatnik
Founder and Chairman of Access Industries
and head of the Blavatnik Family Foundation

The Blavatnik National Awards celebrate America’s most innovative and promising faculty-rank scientists and engineers. Nominations are accepted from U.S.-based research institutions and the Blavatnik Awards Scientific Advisory Council. Every year, one nominee in each category is named a Blavatnik National Laureate and awarded $250,000 in unrestricted funds Learn more about the national program.

The Blavatnik Regional Awards acknowledge and celebrate the excellence of outstanding postdoctoral scientists who work in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Winners and finalists are selected by a group of senior scientists and engineers from institutions primarily in the Northeast. Winners are awarded $30,000 each and finalists are awarded $10,000 each in unrestricted funds. Learn more about the regional program.

About The Blavatnik Family Foundation
The Blavatnik Family Foundation is an active supporter of leading educational, scientific, cultural, and charitable institutions in the United States, Europe, and throughout the world. The Foundation is headed by Len Blavatnik, an American industrialist and philanthropist. Mr. Blavatnik is the founder and Chairman of Access Industries, a privately-held U.S. industrial group with global interests in natural resources and chemicals, media and telecommunications, emerging technologies, life sciences and real estate. For more detailed information, please visit: www.accessindustries.com.

About the New York Academy of Sciences
The New York Academy of Sciences is an independent, not-for-profit organization that since 1817 has been committed to advancing science, technology, and society worldwide. With more than 20,000 members in 100 countries around the world, the Academy is creating a global community of science for the benefit of humanity. The Academy’s core mission is to advance scientific knowledge, positively impact the major global challenges of society with science-based solutions, and increase the number of scientifically informed individuals in society at large. Please visit us online at www.nyas.org.

"One of the first winners of the regional Blavatnik Awards, Ruslan Medzhitov, an immunobiologist at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, says that the honour enabled him to attract funding and more prizes."